Where is the impactor?” The question, raised during a planetary science lecture back in 2019, struck a chord with ...

The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

This is the message of the sixth issue of the annual "State of the Climate" report. The report was prepared by an ...

Humanity has reached the first Earth system tipping point, the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs, marking the beginning of irreversible planetary shifts. As global temperatures move beyond ...

A developing pyrocumulonimbus cloud above Oregon's Gulch Fire, part of the Beaver Complex Fire, in 2014. On September 5, 2020, California’s Creek Fire grew so severe that it began producing it’s own ...

Plate tectonics give rise to Earth's mountain ranges, earthquakes and the long-term movement of continents, and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know, no ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

In microgravity, flames form a spherical shape due to the absence of buoyancy-driven convection. Meanwhile, flames are ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...